Joshua Barnes
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The Reverse Bucket List
It had been ten years to the day since she got the shoe box. As she sat on the couch, she finally felt comfortable enough to look through it after all this time. The dust on top of the box reminded her how she had put off opening the box that her best friend, Drew, had left for her after he committed suicide. It shocked everyone as it seemed to just come out of nowhere, but no one was more stunned than she was. After taking a deep breath she blew the dust off the top of the box and opened it. There were a bunch of folded handwritten letters, with her name on them and his bucket list. Instead of looking through the letters she decided to look at the bucket list, since it was something they had worked on achieving together. She could see his face explaining “Why make a bucket list when I’m close to death?” he said beamingly “No, no, no let’s just do it now. That way I can say I lived my life, and not tried to rush everything at the last second!”
By Joshua Barnes 5 years ago in Humans
The Heart, The Man, The Clot
*The heart is a tricky thing. In one definition it is a vital organ to life. In another it is a “feeling” we are told to follow. We talk about hearts and how we know things by it, or how they can be broken though not literally, and how they can be full of an emotion that isn’t physical in the slightest but yet you feel. The heart in both definition, feeling and even in word can have so many meanings. But truthfully they are all connected.*
By Joshua Barnes 5 years ago in Humans
